Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1887-10-26

hear on ev cry side the cry of "hard
times" and men are ready to discuss
tariff and free trade, overlooking the
great cause that more than anything
else depresses and burdens the people.
Look at the figures $9OO,OOOOOO in
vested in the liquor interest in the
United States, $7OO,OOO,OOO in tobacco.
while there are only $5OO.OOO. 600 in
vested in bread and SOC, 000, 900 in meat
and Il still smaller amount in COTTON
fabrics. In the two first named there
is absolutely nothing good that fol-
lows,-lt Is worse than wasted. The
Massachusetts manufactures of shoes.
cotton and wooden goods tell me. she
said, that the market is glutted and
that they cannot find sales for their
products. And why cannot they find
market? Because the larger part of
the capital in our country is invested
in that which impOUerishes the DeoDIe
If the man who spends his money for
drink would spend it for the comfort of
his family, the factories of all descrn-
tiOns would be kept busy, the laboring
classes would be kept EMPLOYED at re.
muneratlVe wages, more grain wOuId
be needed to feed them and at better
prices, homes that are now the subjects
OF public charity would be bright and
happy, and virtue and happiness would
be substituted in many places where
there IS now MISERY and desolation.
prosperity must follow when the
money invested in an illegtimate bust
ness that wastes and blights, is turned
to the legitimate channels of trade
linking one business with another in
the wants Ofan enlightened civilization
The true interest of every man in the
community is against the liquor traffic
leaving out the moral and looking at il
only from a business stand point. If
there was no liquor sold, the man who
spends his money to debase himself.
and deprives his family of their needed
comforts would buy more dry goods.
more boots and shoes, more and better
food. Every merchant and shopkeep-
CT would be benefited.
The evils Of the traffic as she has
seen them in this country and in
Europe and Asia were graphically pre-
sented, and while a gigantic one, she
expressed faith in its ultimate over.
throw. She considered the OrganiZa.
ton of the w. G. T. o., a moral force
that Is doing and will accomplish 2
most effective work, and not only in
this but in heather lands the women
are being recognized as effective agen.
Cies Of reformation.
She closed with a striking descrip.
ton of picture she had seen in Rome
painted by one of the great masters, o.
the contest between the angel Gabriel
and Satan. The artist in his imagina.
ton has painte ! the angel with 1.-the
| delicate form, and face expressive O.
innocence, while Satan was of giant
form and ferociOus look. The artist
pictures the scene when the latte? had
been overcome, with Gabriel standing
over him with half folded wings and
just the tip of his foot touching the
PROSTATE giant So she thought VIC
might be approaching the time in the
fulfllment of Gods purposes in cho,i.,.
the weak things of this, world to con
found the mighty, woman, commission
ed with a new moral and politica
power, may be the great instrument il
striking down the giant evils that hay,
afflicted society through the ages.
Little Hettie Richards sang prett,
solo, the other members of the Rand o
Hope joining in the chorus. which wa
followed by the doXology and benedic
ton by Rev. E. E. White.